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How to assess graduates when they have no work history
The three methods most commonly used to assess graduates are the three weakest predictors of job performance in the entire research literature. The methods that actually predict performance don’t require any work history at all.
Campus recruitment software buyer’s guide 2026
We reviewed 8 campus recruiting platforms. They’re all good at finding candidates. Not one of them can tell you which candidates will actually perform.
Capability vs Competency: why the difference matters to HR leaders
Competency tells you what someone has done. Capability tells you what they’ll do next. Here’s why AbilityMap made the switch.
How to hire graduates: a complete guide for HR teams
Graduate hiring is broken. AI-polished applications killed the old signals. Here’s how to select on capability, not credentials.
Platform Updates
AbilityMap Monthly Updates: April
Date format updated and standardised across the platform. This is part one of a two part...
AbilityMap Monthly Updates: February
Option to remove team members from team orders. Team orders help organisations better target...
AbilityMap Monthly Updates: September
Updates this month concentrate on user experience: NEW – Bulk match packs now available for...
AbilityMap Monthly Updates: August
There were three small product releases this month. Here are the highlights: Email...
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Nextgenify Masterclass | Discovering Your Natural Strengths
Discover your natural strengths and how to align them to your goals with the Ability Imprint in this empowering masterclass with Mike Erlin.
Rethinking Recruitment: Fit, Capability and What We’ve Been Missing
Discover why traditional hiring fails and how values-led, capability-first recruitment can drive better performance, retention, and culture fit.
Resilience is the Key Metric for Retention
With 45% of HR leaders reporting employees are fatigued from change, identifying resilient people is essential to prepare your organisation for what’s to come.
Apprento identifies high-performance talent
Apprento share how they hit 95% recruitment accuracy and built A-player teams. The scramble to attract and retain high-performance sales talent is incredibly competitive. Now, smart HR professionals can bypass traditional recruitment paths and leapfrog their...
Science of HR: Maximise the potential of your workforce
Learn how science-led HR tools remove bias, define fit, and unlock performance to build smarter, fairer, and more profitable workforce strategies.
Show me the metrics: Why HR Needs Tech to Prove its Value
HR leaders want technology that can show their business real metrics .
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How businesses can build a balanced workforce with Next-gen technology
How can your business build a balanced workforce in the wake of a widespread skills shortage and complex industry challenge?
What is Talent Management?
What are the benefits of implementing a talent management system in your organization. We will define talent management and discuss the different aspects that fall under this umbrella term.
What are capability frameworks?
A capability framework is a tool that can be used by organisations to identify the key...
Psychometric testing
Is psychometric testing useful? We explore it’s history, limits, and place within the evolution of modern talent assessment.
Why trust AbilityMap?
How Deswik uses AbilityMap: from a thousand graduate applications to the sales floor
Deswik triages over 1,000 graduate applications per intake using AbilityMap capability data, with zero graduate terminations across several years. The same framework drives internal promotion and built a sales team from engineers who were never hired to sell. A case study in what capability-first hiring looks like when it runs end to end.
How Reece Group modernised the “career for life” promise with AbilityMap
Discover how Reece Group achieved a 66% reduction in time to competence by using objective data to uncover hidden talent and modernise graduate recruitment.
How AbilityMap’s objective data enabled a high-stakes hire for Boyden
A high-stakes hire needed to unite finance & ops. See how objective data built a bridge between two teams and led to an extraordinary outcome.
Apprento decodes sales DNA with capability-driven hiring using AbilityMap
How Apprento helped fast-growing companies uncover hidden sales talent, and turn career-switchers into top performers.
BREAKING: Next-Generation Recruitment Software Takes Industry by Storm
BREAKING NEWS A top-secret recruitment methodology has been uncovered today. Next-generation recruitment software, AbilityMap, is causing a stir in certain circles. We spoke to an insider to see what the fuss is about. Turns out, one recruiter says AbilityMap solves...
How Fast Cover expanded their team and reduced time-to-hire simultaneously
“Any new hire must go through AbilityMap. That’s the mandate.” Rapidly growing Australian travel insurance provider, Fast Cover, use AbilityMap to keep up with the hiring demands of a growing business. Fast Cover provides straightforward travel insurance that helps...
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AbilityMap featured in NOAH intelligence analysis on continuous capability systems
NOAH Intelligence examines the shift from one-off training to continuous capability systems in talent development. AbilityMap is featured as an operational example of a capability framework that measures jobs and people across multiple skill domains, creating a common language for role requirements.
Capability intelligence in hiring: AbilityMap’s methodology featured on BI WORLDWIDE
AbilityMap’s Head of Growth, Dave Seligsohn, co-authored a piece with BI WORLDWIDE’s VP Learning on Capability Intelligence in hiring. The article examines why experience and interview performance are poor predictors of job success, and how measuring behavioural capabilities against role requirements produces better outcomes.
How to assess graduates when they have no work history
The three methods most commonly used to assess graduates are the three weakest predictors of job performance in the entire research literature. The methods that actually predict performance don’t require any work history at all.
Campus recruitment software buyer’s guide 2026
We reviewed 8 campus recruiting platforms. They’re all good at finding candidates. Not one of them can tell you which candidates will actually perform.
Capability vs Competency: why the difference matters to HR leaders
Competency tells you what someone has done. Capability tells you what they’ll do next. Here’s why AbilityMap made the switch.
How to hire graduates: a complete guide for HR teams
Graduate hiring is broken. AI-polished applications killed the old signals. Here’s how to select on capability, not credentials.
AbilityMap Monthly Updates: April
Date format updated and standardised across the platform. This is part one of a two part release to reflect the American date format as...
Succession planning beyond the 9-box grid
Most succession plans fail because they rely on opinion, not evidence. Here’s how to build one grounded in capability data.
AbilityMap featured in Dynamic Business: Founder Friday
CEO Mike Erlin speaks to Dynamic Business about the hiring frustration that spanned three countries and became AbilityMap’s capability assessment platform.
AbilityMap Monthly Updates: February
Option to remove team members from team orders. Team orders help organisations better target learning and development and view improvements over...
Mike on LinkedIn News Australia: How to unlock your team’s full potential
As part of February's CEO of the Month video series by LinkedIn News Australia, Mike Erlin shares his view on how to unlock your team's full...
The competitive advantage CEOs will need by 2030
As AI reshapes the workforce, Mike Erlin explores why mapping innate human capability, not just static skills, is the defining edge for future leaders.
Skills, skills, skills… they only matter if they’re applied
Skills only matter if they are applied. Discover why Capability is the missing link between having a skill and delivering repeatable, compounding business value.
HR Daily: Workforce decisions ignoring crucial ‘capability’ assessment
In a recent interview with HR Daily, AbilityMap CEO Mike Erlin explains why overlooking “capability” leads to inconsistent returns on talent investment. Discover how measuring innate DNA, not just skills, ensures that workforce decisions translate into repeatable business value.
Skills visibility has improved. Productivity hasn’t. Here’s why.
Skills visibility is at an all-time high, yet productivity is stalling. Discover why the “productivity leak” happens when skills aren’t backed by capability.
The professional development trap: More training, less impact
Mike Erlin challenges the assumption that better professional development comes from offering more learning options. He argues that the real issue...
Skills get AI in the door. Capability determines whether it creates value
At Davos this year, one message was hard to miss: AI is no longer the differentiator. Human capability is. As generative AI becomes embedded across...
One layer too high: why workforce decisions fail without precision
Most organisations are not short on talent data. They use psychometrics, behavioural profiles, skills frameworks, competency models, engagement...
Capability: the most misunderstood concept in talent and business performance
Most leaders don’t lack talent frameworks. They’re surrounded by them. Personality profiles. Skills matrices. Competency models. Behavioural...
The ‘Moneyball’ operating system to build high performance teams
Why performance problems persist, even when you hire the best people.
AbilityMap partners with BI WORLDWIDE to tackle the global skills and productivity crisis
AbilityMap partners with BI WORLDWIDE to link human capability to business outcomes, ensuring learning efforts deliver measurable results.
The adaptability blueprint: future-proofing your workforce in the age of AI
Build future-fit leaders. Learn how to use strengths data to reduce friction, boost adaptability, and unlock your team’s true potential.
AbilityMap Monthly Updates: September
Updates this month concentrate on user experience: NEW – Bulk match packs now available for purchase within the platform for monthly subscribers...
Friction, fit & flow: rethinking leadership development with strengths data
Discover how to build future-fit leadership pipelines. Learn to identify natural strengths, reduce performance friction, and create a state of flow for energised, effective leaders.